Makkah Time A New Alternative for GMT The Giant Clock of Makkah is ...

The observatory will also be used to sight the moon during the holy Months. On special occasions, 16 bands of vertical lights will shoot some 10 km up into the sky. Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah had ordered the largest ...

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